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Postby MHD on Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:36 pm

Some more playing with my new sigma 70-200 at lunch today

Looking at the boke(h)
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Postby Alpha_7 on Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:43 pm

Very please bokeh with all of these shots, inparticular the first two!

Enjoy you new toy!
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Postby PiroStitch on Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:48 pm

Nice toy :D Might have to consider adding one of these dang fangled sigmies to my collection.
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Postby MHD on Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:08 pm

mind you Indigo Australis would look nice in front of anything :)
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Postby Geoff on Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:11 pm

MHD wrote:mind you Indigo Australis would look nice in front of anything :)


SCott - nice bokeh indeed! You sound like a botanist too :) Indigo Australis taken with the Sigmatis Australis 70-200is :) hehehe...you seem very happy with your new toy...brilliant stuff mate!
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Postby Manta on Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:36 pm

Lovely pics Scott - beautiful colours on the Indigo, especially the.....indigo!

I'm looking forward to the time when the Poor Man's VR finds a home in my kitbag. Hopefully soon.

Thanks for posting. The Sigma seems to be living up to people's expectations.
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Postby petermmc on Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:00 pm

Hi Scott

I am about to get one of these lenses. Your shots are helping me make my mind up. Which converter do you think you would use with this one should you wish to use one at all?

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Postby BBJ on Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:16 pm

Scott i am glad you are happy with your new lens, the pics look fine and well i like mine and think it is great for the bucks, cant go wrong.
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Postby mudder on Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:40 pm

Wow, good strong colour saturation, love #2... Looks like you had a nice lunch-time walk :)
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Postby Aussie Dave on Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:53 pm

Thanks for posting these Scott. I think there might be a few people looking at these images and thinking hard about jumping off the VR bandwagon.

Birdy, I hope you are getting ready for the orders that will soon flood in :lol: :lol: :lol:
I'd like to say I will be one of them, but realistically, it's quite a ways off yet :cry:
Perhaps if I only limit myself to 200mm on my 70-300 APO II I can pretend I have the 70-200 2.8 ?!? :roll: :lol:
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Postby birddog114 on Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:57 pm

Aussie Dave,
Just let the 70-200VR RIP atm, no news of them in the near future.
The only way to have fun is grab this Sigma and having fun with it instead of, once the 70-200VR back to the market, if you're not happy with the Sigma and have spare cash then off to the Nikkor. It won't hurt!
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